Developers K.F. Harlock and Shizuma have been working on a jRPG-style dungeon delver called Dungeonmen: Men of Dungeons. Harlock describes the game as follows: “Dungeonmen: Men of Dungeons” is an RPG that mixes classic dungeon-crawling mechanics with the design sensibilities of 16-bit JRPGs. In it, you can build a team of up to 40 heroes, […]

A Twitter follower recently brought a small treasure trove of freeware RPGs to my attention. The first one I’m going to talk about is called Shattered World: Beneath a Stone Sky. Mechanically, it seems to be a pretty straightforward Disgaea clone. Plot-wise, it’s…you’re already downloading it, aren’t you? Fair enough. Shattered World was initially released […]

Whitney White writes in to announce Demon’s Revenge, a jRPG currently in development by herself, Tyrell White, Ricky Gunawan, Michael Correa, and a programmer who prefers to go by the moniker “derula.” The premise: Demon’s Revenge is about a young woman name Sen. She has gone through hell her whole life, having accidentally killed her […]

Loren the Amazon Princess (previously covered here) has just been graced with a brand new expansion by the name of The Castle of N’Mar. It all begins when Amazon scouts have gone missing while investigating disturbances in the cursed land of N’mar … It is now up to Loren and her companions to find out […]

So, FTL. In all likelihood, you’ve heard about this game already, which is part of why I haven’t been in a rush to write about it. The other part is that I wasn’t convinced that it was actually an RPG. Having now seen its mechanics in action, however, I’ve decided that (a) it is definitely […]

You know who puts out a ton of games? Choice of Games, that’s who. Dorian Hart is the latest author to produce a choose-your-own-adventure / RPG hybrid via the Choice of Games engine, a sci-fi space epic entitled Choice of the Star Captain. About that: Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity […]

OlderBytes has released Swords and Sorcery – Underworld Gold, a first-person turn-based dungeon-crawler reminiscent of older Might and Magic games. If there is a plot, the game’s page doesn’t mention it. The developer describes the game as follows: Swords and Sorcery – Underworld Gold is a kickback to the 80s dungeon crawler, featuring old school […]

When I first created this site, I envisioned it as both a way for (1) people to find out about indie RPGs they might never have heard of, and (2) indie RPG developers to get attention they might never have received otherwise. Recently, Valve created a way for people to not only get attention for […]

Ruari O’Sullivan, one of the two developers who worked on the well-received graphical roguelike Cardinal Quest, writes in to announce a sequel. Cardinal Quest 2, like the original, is (and I quote) a streamlined roguelike; a top-down 2D game with permadeath about fighting your way through varied procedurally-generated environments and eventually challenging the minotaur tyrant […]

Czech game studio Cinemax, s.r.o. (not to be confused with this Cinemax) has just released Inquisitor, a title described in the gaming press as a Baldur’s Gate clone with Diablo-style combat. (You have a party, but only control the main character.) Here is the premise of Inquisitor: The game brings you, a medieval inquisitor, to […]